Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They met in the ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. When crowds of ticket-holders had been told there was no more room, when the galleries had been packed with Democrats who could not get tickets, the important ones sat down to eat, 1,300 strong...
...choice, tangy naval skipper is Rear-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor, 52, blunt, peppery and retired into politics. As Commander of the battle cruiser Renown he carried Edward of Wales to Canada (1919) and to Australia and New Zealand (1920). Smart Americans have met Admiral Taylor in Manhattan as the guest of Art-Tycoon Otto Kahn...
...University puck chasers will play their last game before the lay-off which is to be in order during the midyear period. As several of the players must work for the approaching examinations, the game will be more or less impromptu. As many times as the two institutions have met on the gridiron and other fields of battle, they clashed on the ice for the first time last year, when the Bear grudgingly yielded...
With the "comeback" of the rubber industry, Prudential Securities has made money on the Goodyear and Seiberling rubber company stocks, which it held. But Prudential Securities was created to help Mr. Seiberling, not to profit. Therefore, slight Mr. Seiberling and bulky Mr. Davis met in the Cleveland lawyers' office last week and dissolved the company. This relieved Mr. Davis of his $5,000,000 guarantee and it repaid him his $500,000 cash. Mr. Seiberling and lawyers tried to persuade him to accept interest on his money. He refused. Said he: "Business is business, but friendship is also friendship...
...next episode is something very different. In Raona, "that ancient Mediterranean town on a cliff ledge half way to the sky," Claire Ambler met an invalid whose gallantries on a battlefield more severe than that of love permitted him to anticipate only one bravery more. Charles Orbison, waiting, in the warm sun, for death to reward him for the wounds he had suffered in the War, saw Claire Ambler and heard her sing once, beautifully and out of a rare simplicity. Claire, not very inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries...